This game fucking rocks, I can't believe I haven't tried it until now. For spooky week this has been an awesome way to start, even if it's not traditional "horror". What next?
>>724322131It's been in my library for years but I haven't touched it.
>>724322580i strongly recommend it, its a lot better than i thought it would be. it's like all the good parts of the system shock and bioshock evolution line.
>>724323012Installed it. Thank you, /v/ro. I'll give it a shot.
>>724322131>What nextDead Space (not the remake)SOMAAmnesiaSignalis, but you can't talk about that one on /v/
>>724322131I loved it. /v/ boomers hated it when it released, not sure why.
>>724322131Based, I played Prey last year for the first time and loved it. Btw if anyone is planning to buy it, if you get it from GOG you get the preorder bonuses included.>>724324652I've had SOMA in my backlog for a while, I guess now would be a good time to play it
>>724322131Give Poppy Playtime a try
>>724322580Damn same I really should play it this week
>>724322131Outlast 1
>>724324652seconded for soma, absolutely incredible game
>>724322131System Shock
>>724324705It had the same name as another game people were awaiting a sequel forReally unfortunate They should have called this game Neuroshock.
>>724322131>>724322580>>724323012>>724324415kino
>>724322131>>724324652>>724324968>>724325763Holy fuck /v/ are you stalking me?
>>724325939>>724326201ain't no way
>>724322131I enjoyed the hell out of it. But I also love System Shock 2 and to me Prey is that games spiritual successor.
>>724326467>>724326201I shit you not these are the exact games I downloaded very recently for my spooky season gaming this yearI'm finishing up with Prey (I think) and will do Soma next. Painkiller is just a nice blast from the past and a change of paceThis is uncanny
>>724326829h o l y
Prey is fun, but one thing it does poorly is that it made shotgun/timeslow combo too fun to use. Its hard to bother with any of the fancy powers and shit when that combo and gluegun/wrench just ends everything before it becomes a threat.
Also I don't believe in any of that alien mumbo jumbo witchcraft. Not 1 neuromod point has gone into anything remotely typhon relatedit's made for a real interesting playthrough thus far basically being a "human only" kind of thing and shooting phantoms in their distorted faces point blank with this baby is so satisfying
>>724327307I thought the Human only playthrough was piss easy and the Typhon only playthrough was an inventory management nightmare. Can't take any upgrades for inventory space, those are human upgrades. So I just carried around a suitcase full of bullshit everywhere with me.
>>724327180Funny that because I also didn't spec into slowmo either
Bump
>>724324705people didn't like the It was all a simulation ending iirc
buy an ad
>>724327440>So I just carried around a suitcase full of bullshit everywhere with me.Damn that's hardcore
>>724327827It's free on GOGGames.
>>724322131>>7243230127/10 it's ok. It does combat and worldbuilding worse than Bioshock and it does imsim gameplay and story worse than System Shock. That being said I don't like horror. I enjoyed the story twists and turns of Prey and I thought the ending was ok. I played through it once, on the hardest difficulty and with survival mode, human augs only. It was fun but it was only hard in the first 2-3 sections, afterwards it became trivial. I think I would enjoy the DLC more but I didnt five it a fair shake yet, I think I was topped off on the game after the campaign playthrough so I only tried the dlc for 30 mins
Best way to deal with Etheric Phantoms and Technopaths?
I've never enjoyed a horror game, but I love horror vibes in non-horror games, though I've hardly played any. Any others like that?
>>724328692A shotgun.Or what I liked to do was use that mind control typhon power so I have a teammate for a minute.
You can take out Nightmare with just the pistol. It takes a lot of shots but if you get a good spot to hide or get him stuck on some crates or the geometry of the area you can easily pot shot him down while he never becomes a threat to you at all even with his homing blasts.
>>724327505
>>724322131It's a masterpiece IMO.
>>724327307I prefer the alien skills. Decoy is the Blink equivalent it let's you teleport forward. And turning corpses into Phantoms is very cathartic. Only thing is Neuroshock is by far the most powerful attack in the game, so once you get it all tension fighting anything but operators evaporates.
>game is too easy because you get more powerful if you get more abilities hmmmmm
>>724328762XIII
>>724328762HL2 and Ravenholm?
>>724322131Play it on the hardest difficulty. Great fun.
>>724333252What's the most important thing for Nightmare difficulty?
>>724333693It's Prey, powergame and just upgrade the gun to it's fully capacity, the rest is all about stealth and lethality, get the drop with the most advantage as possible and then hide again. It's all about emergent gameplay, there is no one powergame.
>>724327307>Also I don't believe in any of that alien mumbo jumbo witchcraft.The witchcraft believes in your ignorance though.
>>724334409Next time you guys play vidya pay close attention to checkerboard floors. They are everywhere, especially in AAA games. You get addicted through witchcraft.>anon might say I don't believe so it doesn't affect meThat's exactly where they want you. Playing and playing in willful ignorance to the end, soul goes to hell forever.Mark 16:16 KJVHe that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
>>724322131Literally no game I've played since has quite scratched the itch the same. To me it was a perfect culmination of the games I grew up enjoying in the imsim and sci-fi horror genres.Only criticism I have is that the enemy design needed more visual variety. The "inky squid monster" aesthetic gets kinda boring, at least compared to games like the original System Shock 1 and 2 that had a wide variety of technological and organic enemies, or games like Dead Space that have such unique looking Cronenbergian fetish creatures.Although on the reverse of that criticism, I loved the mimics. They weren't particularly threatening overall, but they keep the tension at the right level when you're doing your inevitable imsim/survival-horror backtracking. It some ways it kind of reminds me of how the crimson heads made re-treading the mansion more tense in the RE1 remake; except instead of "was that bastard red before?", it's "why two keyboards?".
>>724327307And I also remember phantoms do flicker a lot, ey? Very bad for you.
>>724334541Forgot to include context with that image: I remember seeing trailers for that picrel like an actual decade ago, and it looked like it might be good. But I've heard little new about it in years... steam says Q4 of this year but who knows.
>>724322131It is a sweet game, like a System Shock game but with more non-combat options, similar to Deus Ex. I would just play Silent Hill if you haven't. Emulating the PS2 will give you access to a lot of top tier horror games, including the Siren and Fatal Frame series just to name a few.
The schizos here
>>724333693You want to go after the blueprint for skill points ASAP. I don't know how to describe it but I would be able to get there again in-game lol. One of my favorite things about the game.The best combat skills are shotgun damage and the bullet time power. Increased health would also be good, but you might not be able to get that until later.This is the important thing about Nightmare difficulty. If you get alien powers, the nightmare enemy will start spawning, and you have to be prepared for it. It will one-shot you at base HP. The way to deal with this is to hunt down and scan the weaver enemies so you can learn the best version of their shield power. Once you have that, you can simply tank the nightmare as long as you can restore your mana to upkeep your shield.Then you want to get the psycho shock power, the one that does single-target damage and stops the enemy from using spells. That is the perfect complement to the shotgun, and is the last thing you'll need to fuck up the nightmare every time you see it.
>>724335456>The way to deal with this is to hunt down and scan the weaver enemies so you can learn the best version of their shield power*before you get any other alien powers
>>724335309Whenever someone posts that I think of this:https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-rhQbw5fDOrO5zWumWmBt0fAaz0mzXAr?si=SgOeUdqSwTVQFQcZ
>>724335309I know it's newfag baby shit but I just figured out how to filter them. Pretty excited about that. Never wanted to do that before so never learned how.Anyway I always hated how a schism was created between fans of the other game called Prey and this one. Always seemed like a stupid argument to even have in the first place.
>>724336454As someone who enjoyed both games it seems pretty dumb too. But still this game would have fine so much better if it wasn't called Prey
>>724335456Good stuff. Will have to give this a try
>>724322131I like the game despite that it is woke as shit.
Great game sabotaged by Todd.
i found it to be annoyingly repetitive.>walk in room>scan for mimics>loot trash>repeat foreveri mean, the way the various powers allow you to explore in different ways was cool. but no matter which way you choose to explore, the fundamentals are the same everywhere.now tell me i'm a retard that didn't actually play the game
>>724338931>>724338586Elaborate before I pay my shekels.
>>724339253It's got lesbians. And people who aren't white. So if those things trigger you to the point of anger I'd avoid it.
>>724339490>people who aren't whitedisgusting>lesbiansare they the good kind or the disgusting kind?
>>724334676>Looked like it might be goodIIRC, the devs of Routine basically finished the game indie then realized they made a bad game, so they hunted for a publisher to restart development with. Before, it was a roguelike horror game, now I think it's just a straightforward first person horror game
>>724339537Personally I thought the character models were all ugly so to me the disgusting kind cause EVERYONE in the game looks disgusting. Fortunately for me that wasn't why I was playing it so while I noticed it I quickly forgot.
>>724339253>game wasn't called Prey originally>Everyone excited for Prey 2>Todd not only cancelled it but it comes out its a massive conjob and he ruined a company and shockingly this has been memory holed>Wants to fuck over Arkane as they are being called "new bethesda">Buys them up and makes them rename the game to Prey>Massive backlash from Prey fans pissed about Prey 2's cancellation>Only years later do people play this and go "wait this is actually System Shock 3 what the fuck"
>>724339712TODD!!!!!
>>724339253Just look at the characters in the DLC.>white guy psychopath prisoner>ugly black woman engineer>paki security guard
>>724339981>>white guy psychopath prisonerI thought he was russian or something.
>max out leverage>max out telepathy >kill monsters by chucking large cabinets and cargo containers at them then pulling them back and doing it again until they're dead
>>724324652SOMA but play on the pussy baby mode that makes monsters harmless, the stupid Amnesia monster hiding segments really detract from the actual scary part of the game.
>>724322131>>724323012Been loving this too, like you I wasn't expecting much but I picked it up randomly for £4 on PS4 and was so impressed I stopped playing after a few hours to get the PC version and start again with more suitable controls. It's a much better spiritual sequel to System/Bioshock than Infinite was.
>>724340620Interesting take? I've never heard of this before
>>724341128I haven't played Soma but I buy it. As I understand it the game stays upright by atmosphere and story alone, and I bet some people just get annoyed with the hide and seek portions of the game.
>>724322131woke slop
>>724339981holy retard
>>724333252>nightmare>no needles >hardcore
>>724324652>Signalis, but you can't talk about that one on /v/Because it's a homosexual game
>>724341926>Skipping a brilliant game because there's a handful of gay charactersFucking dweeb
>>724322131What are some free/cheap horror games on Steam? I wanna be spooked but I don't wanna be spooked from having an empty wallet.
>>724342931Cry of Fear
>>724342931yeah cry of fear is one that'll workyou could also try other various horror mods for hl1/2 that are free and absolutely terrifying as well
>>724342931Darkwood is phenomenal but I hate games with a time limit
>>724322131Lmao preyfaggot came out of the closet for the least organic shilljob possible for his terrible obsession game that nobody liked for good reason.Wait no this thread is really real don't check the catalog golly gee tell us more you weird piece of shit!
>>724324652Dead Space and Signalis are good.SOMA's protagonist is a brain damaged Canadian, and I'm not generalizing or exagerrating. If you want to listen to a stereotypical Canadian struggle to understand simple things for 10 hours in a walking simulator, then SOMA is for you.Amnesia is a walking simulator with some puzzles and a little intrigue. Can't say it's bad, but it doesn't stand up to Dead Space or Signalis in terms of world building, immersion, horror, exploration, etc.
>>724328321kys
>>724340620>>724341872Without the monster hiding segments the game is literally a walking simulator.Which isn't necessarily a bad thing since the story and atmosphere are great, but don't go in expecting a "game"' if you use that mode.
>>724343847Meds
>>724341926it's the kind of tolerable woke I can ignore. Fucking excellent game.
>>724343847Why the fuck does EVERY SINGLE FUCKING THREAD have to have these schizoass fucking faggotsIt doesn't matter what game it is no matter what you try to make a thread about on /v/ some dedicated threadschizo will come and schizo all over the placeFucking hell
>>724345560You could just hide it or something. Or ignore it. It's gonna be okay.
>>724345675But it's just so prevalent for literally every single game.
>>724345325How so? It's not shoved in your face like other games? What did they do differently here?
>>724322580Same. At this point the game is way too old for me to ever try now
>>724344820Why so angry. Go outside
>>724322131try the DLC too, imo it's great, maybe even better gameplay-wise
>>724329008The Nightmare literally never was a problem for me, he's just free mats.
>>724322131if you wanna break the game, abuse recycling grenades to empty out maps and get a ton of mats, and craft all the upgrades early
>>724322131This is the only single player game over 20h long that I finished twice in a year.
>>724327180It's actually the opposite. It makes everything overpowered. The game even has a specific mechanic in response to this but you're a monster by that point. It just shoves down your throat that going ham with the alien side of stuff is """bad""" so people initially avoid it.
